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Verstappen mega-talent clear from early karting days
Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen, even as a youngster, stood out as a serial winner says Paul Lemmens, owner of the Belgian kart track where the Dutch driver first honed his racing skills. Lemmens, whose Karting Genk circuit is known as the ‘Home of Champions', recalled first meeting the four-year-old Verstappen when father and former F1 racer Jos brought him along to test a baby kart. 'It was amazing to see because his helmet was bigger than himself,' he told Reuters television a day after Red Bull's 24-year-old Verstappen won the title in Abu Dhabi. 'The father Jos was racing also in my team and for that, he started here. He lived also in Belgium about 15km from here so each...
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